The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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! cigar continuously in the mouth, never smoke
foul pipe, and drink coffee when smoking.
! YOU'VE LADIES and gentlemen of Forrest City,
! Ark. last week INDUCED in a fox hunt by noon
/ light. There was lots of flirting and love-making
during the ride, but the foxes were not disturbed
| in the least.
! The State Wheel, published at Sulphur Rock,
Tenn, mentions the killing of rattlesnake in
that vicinity which was IS feet long, had IA
rattles, measured ~ inches across the head, and
had five shoats in its stomach.
A STRANGE customer came to the county jail
at Marshall, Mich, the other evening, being
nothing less than a mink, which walked into the
front door of the jail, and was killed in one of
the corridors by Turnkey Prentice's little boy.
THE Crown Princess Stephanie, of Austria, has
contributed some chapters to her husbands
great work, 1.-THE Austro- Hungarian Monarchy
in Word and Picture" The editorial committee
insisted upon paying her by making a hand
some deposit in a savings bank in the name of
Stephanie'S baby daughter, the Archduchess
Elizabeth.
BRONSON ALcoTr has kept journal ever since
he was boy and as he was born in 1871 and
has known intimately every man of distinction in
New England from that time to the present, it
ought to be most interesting reading. This
journal fills sixty volumes of neatly written
manuscript, which will BIZ given to the world
after his death
THE car in which Abraham Lincoln made the
| journey from Buffalo to Albany, on his way to
Washington for his first Inauguration, is still in
| good condition, and running on the Auburn
branch of the New York Central railroad. The
! portraits of Lincoln and Washington, and the
national flag with which the interior was
| decorated for the occasion, remains as perna-
| nent fixtures.
| THE Theological Seminary at Andover opened
on Tuesday, with Dr.. Egbert Smyth really in
| charcya ALTHOUGH noroipallv 5apocad ba
old students are back, save last years Gradual
| ing class, and there are a large number of new
| applicants. A son of DIR. Ward of the New
York Independent, which has been vigorously
| assailing the seminary, has Joined the senior
class from the Union Theological Seminary Of
! New York.
| THE Indian Visitor published at the Carlisle
Indian school, has correspondents In the Indian
reservations which furnish occasionally curiot
items Of news The Indian elections appear to
| excite grear interest. In one of the recent let
| tiers appear these among other similar notes:
| Nero Jones was over from Arbekb talking for
| l.. g Perryman as chief of the Muskogee ma
ton. Jones thinks that l.. G. Perryn1an stands
good show to be elected. Niece Chepko, band
chief of Took-abachee town. has been around
talking for J. NJ Perryman for chief of the
MuSkogee nation. They seem to be about
equally divided"
| A VERY celebrated American Minister to Ger
many would never receive guests not per-
| sonally known to him until the day after they
| had notified him of their intention to call In
| the meantime he would ascertain what they had
| done, and on meeting them would say: Il am
| delighted to meet you: your great work, SO and
so, is known throughout the world, and is a
| standard in the United States;" or, THE fame
| of your influence as a statesman has extended
| far beyond the bounds of the country you so
worthily represent" or. Your exploits at the
| battle of - have thrilled patriots every
where" Thus they were delighted, and the
Minister obtained the reputation of universal
| knowledge.
OF Sebastian Muller, who lately arrived from
Switzerland in New Haven, the Register says:
Muller is % years old, stands feet inches IN
height and tips the beam at 1885, pounds. He
is well built, with large and massive shoulders,
| and spendidly developed muscles on arms and
chest Taking stone about inches long and
of the usual cobblestone shape, he held it firmly
| with his left hand against an iron bali fastened
to the top of barrel Then swinging his right
| arm around his head he brought the hand down
sideways with fearful force upon the stone
! about 2 inches from the end. With q crack the
stone broke into several places, which few off
| in several directions The operation was ex-
| actly similar to that of a blacksmith welding
| sledge hammer. The last stone broken was a
nearly round toughteXtured piece Of white
quartz, such as is often found along country
roads. This was also shivered into pieces. After
| the performance Muller's hand showed no sign
of the fearful blows except slight redness.'
A CHINESE SAILOR died at Spithead, Eng,
lately, and was buried at the Portsmouth GENE
terry, the funeral being attended by party of
sailors from the Chinese squadron After the
coffin had been lowered into the grave the es-
cOrt was called to attention whereupon four
Sailors who occupied q position at the foot of
| the grave, produced in succession tin pail a
parcel OF matches, number of fagOtS, and
various pieces of brown paper. A fire having
been kndled, ont of the pail were brought forth
| several plates, which were disposed round the
fire, lump OF pork various pieces of meat.
| few eggs and q quantity of salt and sand
These having been divided into fives were
| cooked and placed on the plates, and on the
| consumption of the sacrifice they were all
| gathered together and returned to the pail A
sailor now partly filed in the grave after which
the captain of the ship and couple OF subordi-
| nate officers came forward and Frustrated
themselves three times, utterins prayer at each
the procession returned to the ship.
Nor long ago q wealthy citizen of Boston de-
parted this life, leaving several children, but no
widow, his wife having died some years before.
| His estate was large amounting to more than
| half a million of dollars. BY his will he left
threequarters OF this property to his three chill
| dren, in trust and the remaining one quarter lie
| bequeathed to an acquaintance, who now lives
| in New York. There had been no particular in
timacy between the two men, and almost every
body who knew them was exceedingly surprised
| that the bequest should have been made II is
| hardly necessary to say that all kinds of ex.
| plantations were advanced by the world The
/ is
| ton man had offered himself TO q beautiful girl
| who refused him and subsequently married his
| less prosperous rival In course of time the re-
| jected sutton also married, as men do and diving
| he took this delicate. means of adding to the
happiness of his old love- who was sorely in need
| of the money. Every body will admire both the
| generosity of the gift AMI the tact which led
| the testator TO make it to the husband instead
| of to the wife.
| To areporter who interviewed him in Boston,
| the President Of the Mezzerhoff Club said the
other day: I'VE have got a destructive that can
be made an explosive, if we desire to make it
| one. 1t was first intended to invade British
| harbors; but we have Suspended operations in
| that direction, and have come to the conclusion
| to offer the results of our experiments to the
| United States for harbor defences ill along the
| coast. 1t is simply this: Covering the surface
| OF the water with the slbstance-not that am
| going to tell you what 1t is, for it is a secret
| and lgniting it as the tide ebbs, whatever is
| coming is doomed. Iron will as readily
succumb to its heat as wood /
might as well say the edges of the shore wal
| burn. II is terrible. When q torpedo charged
with this compound approaches a ship even at
| good distance, its explosion will blow her out
OF the water, 1t matters not what is her capacity
or her arinor. This thing can be carried the
world over and be applied Extensively to burn
cities on food tide, as well as to repel invaders
on the ebb, and the little torpedoes can be pro
jected anywhere" The economy of the project